Life Quotes Quote by Henry James — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.”

“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.”

“Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don’t want to spoil the fragrance of our dreams and the poem of life.”

“Everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery.”